The last few weeks I’ve gotten into the bad habit of letting my son sleep in my bed with me. It started out totally innocent. He’d wake up in the middle of the night from a bad dream and climb in bed with me until I could soothe him back to sleep and put him back in his bed. Lately I’ve just been too tired to struggle to lift him back into his bed, so I’ve just left him in bed with me. I think he caught on, because now every night he asks if he can “snuggle” with me for just a few minutes, which inevitably turns into the whole night because mommy has such a hard time lifting him back into his own bed over and over again.
I know this whole co-sleeping arrangement is going to come back and bite me sometime in the near future, but at the moment I kind of like the fact that my son wants to snuggle with his mommy. Sooner or later he’s going to get older and decide he doesn’t want to hang out with mom anymore, so I want to take advantage of this special time now.
This could present a problem if I ever get remarried, but for the time being I kind of like it being just the two of us. I like the quality time we get to spend together reading stories, singing songs, and cuddling in bed each night. I may not be getting the same quality sleep when I have little feet in my ribs, but for now it’s worth the little sacrifice, to have that snuggle time with my baby. One of these days I’m going to have to start putting him back in his bed again, but for now I don’t mind the company.